"Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out."

-- Izumi Shikibu

#Moon Quotes #Sky Quotes #Midnight Quotes

“At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]”
“The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?”
“Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.”
“I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets...”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”
“I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.”
“As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.”
“Except that itâ€™s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. Itâ€™s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mindâ€™s awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.”

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